For the Big Game? Why, Pigskins
READY FOR THE PARTY Pork cracklings at Cochon in New Orleans. More Photos >
BEFORE we return to the regularly scheduled cooking portion of our program, it is important to note that pigskins were never used to make American footballs.
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Sara Jenkins butchers a pig carcass at Porchetta in the East Village. She’s fussy about the skin she roasts. More Photos >
The term comes from an archaic English sport called mob football or, among the more academically minded, medieval football. The basic idea was to move an inflated pig’s bladder between neighboring villages, sometimes kicking it onto the balcony of an opponent’s church. The rest, with some help from enterprising people like Charles Goodyear, who developed vulcanized rubber, is history.
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